Photos of the day 04/05

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Fishermen hang out by a boat that they have been living on at the port of Onahama in Iwaki, northeastern Japan, since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. They moved from a port where Japanese officials told residents to stay indoors to minimize radiation exposure. Takumi Harada/The Yomiuri Shimbun/AP

Officials at the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington display the damaged piece of the Boeing 737-300 fuselage from the April 1 Southwest Airlines plane. The hole tore open 20 minutes after the flight took off from Phoenix. Southwest said it was making repairs on five older planes after inspections found fuselage cracks, and added that flight operations were returning to normal on Tuesday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Employees of Grameen Bank take part in a sit-in protest in front of their central office in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh's highest court rejected an appeal by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus against his dismissal as managing director of Grameen Bank, the microlender he founded. Andrew Biraj/Reuters

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-21 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station flies in the sky at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Circular star tracks around the Polar Star and the track of the rocket are the result of a long time exposure. The Russian rocket carries US astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokytyaev and Andrei Borisenko. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

Palestinian actors react during a vigil in honor of Israeli Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker, and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was shot dead in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin. Mer-Khamis was gunned down Monday in the West Bank town where he ran a drama school and community theater, Palestinian police said. Text on poster reads in Arabic: The martyr of freedom and culture, genius Juliano Khamis. Mohammed Ballas/AP

Snow falls on sheep on a farm on County Highway 45 in Milford, N.Y. Benjamin Patton/The Daily Star/AP

The bandmaster of the Band of the Welsh Guards wears his ceremonial uniform showing the battle honors of the regiment during a media opportunity at a barracks in London. The band has been chosen to perform inside the forecourt of Buckingham Palace during the day of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Alastair Grant/AP

A Libyan rebel plays a guitar outside Brega, Libya. Libyan government forces unleashed a withering bombardment of the rebels outside a key oil town, pushing them back, even as the regime said Muammar Qaddafi might consider some reforms but would not step down. Altaf Qadri/AP

A male stork prepares a nest on the chimney of an old distillery at sunrise in Nauen-Ribbeck near Berlin, Germany. The male storks arrive a few days earlier than their partners to prepare the nest for raising their chicks in the marsh area that is rich in food for them. Ferdinand Ostrop/AP

Relatives of Palestinian Mohammed Shalha mourn during his funeral in Beit Lahiya on the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli troops killed Shalha near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medical worker and the Israeli military said. An army spokeswoman said the man was a militant and had been spotted in an area Israel has deemed off limits because militants often use it to target military patrols along the fence. Mohammed Salem/Reuters

An antigovernment protestor displays bullet shells during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen. Opposition parties in Yemen have urged the international community, regional powers, and human rights groups to help stop the bloodshed in their country. Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Afghan women weave a carpet at a factory in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Rahmat Gul/AP

A woman walks past soldiers loyal to Alassane Ouattara as they man a checkpoint at one of the principal entrances to Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast's entrenched strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, huddled in a bunker at his home and was exploring different options for his surrender, officials said, as forces backing the country's democratically elected leader seized the residence. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Farmer Andre Luiz stands roped to a cross at an outdoor m
ass at the Esplanada dos Ministérios in Brasilia, Brazil. Thousands gathered at the federal government promenade in support of the proposed revision of Brazil’s forest code that protects deforestation of the Amazon. The revision would allow farmers and ranchers to use a larger percentage of the land than is currently allowed. Eraldo Peres/AP

A passenger kisses the ground and prays after disembarking from the Ukrainian Navy ship Konstantin Olshanskiy in Valletta's Grand Harbour in Malta. The ship arrived in Malta carrying 193 workers of various nationalities and their families, evacuated from Libya. The workers, including 22 Britons and 20 Americans, were picked up from the Tripoli area, according to local media. Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

Panda, a rescued stray puppy, strolls on the grass during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, against euthanasia of stray dogs and new regulations to be voted by parliament regarding ways to deal with the stray dog issue. According to protesters gathered outside Romania's parliament, if voted in, the new law would allow the local administration to put down stray dogs. According to local media, there are 50,000 stray dogs in the Romanian capital of which 60 percent are sterilized. Vadim Ghirda/AP

A man walks down a pier in New York Monday night across from the Empire State Building, lit in white and red as part of a coordinated attempt by several landmark buildings around the world to raise awareness of the disaster in Japan. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

On Friday, Russia's sports ministry denied accusations of state-sponsored doping that implicate more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports in sample swapping, tampering with samples, and taking steroid cocktails designed to evade Olympic testing.